LinuxWebApp_As_Desktop

• I am doing this just for fun , the copywrite of these web apps are going to the respected owners
• I am just finding a way to open it in the browser with fullscreen so it will look like an app
• This shell script for launching the WhatsApp web app in browser as full scrren in the another workspace
• Work is going on right now so have patience

Installation

• To use this script you have to install the package named wmctrl using the given command

sudo apt install wmctrl

• Now, clone the repo by typing given to the terminal

git clone https://github.com/TheProGhost/LinuxWebApp_As_Desktop.git

• After cloning the repo, you can use it with given commands

cd LinuxWebApp_As_Desktop
sudo chmod +x Launch_Whatsapp.sh
./Launch_Whatsapp.sh

If the script is not seem to working or browser is opening in the same workspace,

just increase the value of sleep

# increase here
sleep <your_value>

• That issue is happening due to the slow internet or the firefox was unable to load the WhatsApp web

Caution

• I have tested this on the Ubuntu 22.04 with the Gnome 42 Desktop having X11 Display Server
• For the other distros and other desktop environment you guys can test it and let me know

Change of browser

• The Browser is changed from firefox to Brave as firefox was having following issue, due to which the command of firefox was noable to complete and it was causing abnormal behaviour of script

###!!! [Parent][PImageBridgeParent] Error: RunMessage(msgname=PImageBridge::Msg_WillClose) 
Channel closing: too late to send/recv, messages will be lost

• Now in the Brave Browser the full scrren toggle is not working properly.
• So, some work is needed to be done.
• Now, the fullscreen toggle of brave browser is working properly.

Future Work

• testing on other distros and other desktop environment
• Adding the WhatsApp.desktop file
• Modifying the .dektop file to launch whatsapp web
• Another apps are coming